The United States v. Zephaniah Kingsley
By United States Supreme Court
- Release Date: 1838-01-01
- Genre: Law
Description
This is an appeal by the United States from a decree of the superior court of the eastern district of Florida, confirming a land claim. It appears that Zephaniah Kingsley, on the 20th of November, 1816, being then an inhabitant of the province of Florida, petitioned Governor Coppinger, stating, 'that wishing to erect a water sawmill in that creek of the river St. John, called M'Girt's, on a vacant place, and it being necessary for that purpose to have a quantity of timber sufficient to supply said mill and establishment, he supplicates your excellency to be pleased to favour him with your superior permission to build the same on the place aforesaid, with its area of five miles square of land as the equivalent thereof, for its continued supply of timber: bounded south-east and south by lands granted to Ferguson and Doctor Lake; south-west and west by vacant lands; north by Don Juan M'Intosh's land, and east by lands of said Kingsley, and the river St. John.' Upon this petition the governor made the following decree:
